Thursday, January 31, 2013

Assimilation is occurring, even for those who don’t want to believe it

The
Washington Post’s website managed Wednesday to publish the results of an intriguing poll –
one that I wish all the ideologues of the world could see, even though I’m sure
they wouldn’t want to believe it.

For
it concerns assimilation of newcomers to our society, and challenges the notion
that all these Latinos are just too different to ever fit it.

SPECIFICALLY,
IT ASKS people what they think of the idiot ideologue idea of making English
the Official language of the United States. When it comes to Latinos, the
immigrants and next-generation people hate the idea.

But
the third-generation types and further wind up supporting the idea; at rates
almost as large as the poll claims other ethnic people support it.

Supposedly,
white people support the idea by nearly 74 percent, while third generation
Latinos back it by just over 67 percent. Black people and Asians fall in between
that range when it comes to their support of English.

Now
the actual Latino immigrants only back English as an official language by about
26 percent.

THEN
AGAIN, THEY’RE the ones who likely are learning and will never be fully comfortable
with the new language – just like every other ethnicity that ever came to this
country.

But
as the generations pass, assimilation takes place. It is happening.

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I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., and for a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.